Famous Name

A demon with a famous name has his name prominently mentioned in sorcerous
texts, and will sometimes be summoned at inconvenient times. At level 1,
the demon's name is only found in the most obscure and unholy texts, and
at level 6, even cheap paperback books on the occult will contain the rituals
for summoning the demon.

See page 59 of _The Marches_ for details on the summoning of demons. This
resource gives a demon 3 character points per level. Since angels cannot
be summoned, they cannot take this resource.

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Neel Krishnaswami
neelk@alum.mit.edu

"Nathaniel Eliot" <temujin9@ix7.ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Cool idea. One suggestion:

A demon with a famous name has his name prominently mentioned in
sorcerous texts, and will sometimes be summoned at inconvenient
times. At level 1, the demon's name is only found in the most
obscure and unholy texts, and at level 6, even cheap paperback books
on the occult will contain the rituals for summoning the demon.

At the beginning of any gaming session, the GM may roll a d6 - if it
is equal to or less than the level of Discord, the GM is free to
have the character summoned or otherwise harrassed by Sorcerer. Of
course, the GM can (and should) make this roll in secret, so nobody
will know if you fudge it...

Nathaniel Eliot
temujin9@ix.netcom.com

Neel Krishnaswami <neelk@MIT.EDU> wrote:

Go for it. It's your campaign.

Personally, I have a pretty strong dislike for anything that smells of
"roll dice to determine game world events." But I fully recognize that it
is a useful tool in spurring the imagination for other GMs. This is
why I left the specific mechanics undefined. :)

One thing that amuses me about this resource is that the lower the level,
the more likely the summoning sorcerer is competent. Not just anyone has
copies of _The Shining Keys of Solomon_[*] in the original infant-skin
vellum edition, but it tends to be disaffected teenagers who perform the
rituals from the Aleister Crowley titles available at Waldenbooks.

[*] I just now made the title up, for cheese effect. Please no one tell me
that it's real, or my respect for occultism will drop even lower.